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How do deodorise the rubber bung from a flask?
I have a lovely flask and the bung bit which seals it is made from black something or other which might be rubber/plastic sort of thing The flask is clean, the bung is clean the cup (lid) is clean but the bung smells very musty and when I use it for tea it ruins the tea. What can I use? I remember shaking it up with some…
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Making Cheese Spread
Hi Has anyone any recipes for making cheese spread? It must be a cheaper way of using cheese in sandwiches than slices. best wishes Henbane
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Curtains
Here's a question for you knowledgeable folks who make their own curtains. How can you stop the last few loops that you put the curtain hooks through on the header tape becoming long loops resulting in the curtain hanging down at the ends? IYSWIM I think it's the act of opening and closing the curtains that does it, but it…
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Groceries Spreadsheet to help me budget?
Hi there, Not entirely sure I'm posting on the right board here but I was wondering if anyone has any links to a spreadsheet or budget list that I could use to get the grocery spending down in black and white! I don't have excel so anything that's not excel would be good - everything seems to be these days though! I'm…
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Need: Sewing pattern for bear factory clothes!
Hi all. My DD is desperately wanting a pair of satin pj's for her bear factory bear, but I really begrudge paying £8 odd for them. I can get by on my sewing machine if I have a pattern to work from, so does anyone know where I would find clothes patterns that would fit the bear factory bears?! I have posted this request…
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July 2011 Grocery Challenge
Hi everyone, Welcome to the seventh Grocery Challenge of 2011, :hello: If your new month starts early feel free to join this thread, or if you're still working on your June budget, then keep on posting in the June 2011 Grocery Challenge As always this challenge is to reduce your own grocery budget to levels that you will…
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OS Tuesday 23rd August 2011
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Tuesday 23rd August. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already.…
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Help! Lemon Sponge Pudding
Does anybody remember or have a recipe for a lemon sponge dessert with a lemon sauce at the bottom? Mum used to make it for us when we were kids (30+ years ago). She says it was a packet mix and there was a chocolate one also and it was probably a McDougalls packet Fingers crossed one of your wonderful people can help,…
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Running an efficient Kitchen......
Hello All, After our holiday myself and my OH are on a health kick, this consists of basically eating food that is homemade and without any sauce mixes where possible, as well as the usual fruit. I used to do this a while ago through Weighwatchers! Anyhow, working full time and cooking when we get home from scratch might…
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Tesco Value snobbery??
I've just had my Tesco shopping delivered, am desperately trying to economise so ordered loads of 'value' goods. Now I don't have a problem with buying these but I do have a problem with them dotted around the house (reminding me all the time I am poor!!:(), so I go around putting them all into the more 'expensive'…
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cooker spares
Hi, I have a very old Creda Hallmark cooker, which i bought from a work collegue way back in 1994 (for £15) :money:. It's still working, but one of the metal 3 leg thingys which slot under the ring element, to hold it up level, has broken and i cannot find this part on the Creda/Hotpoint site or by googling. Does anyone…
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Uses for carpet/underlay offcuts?
Hello everyone I've just had some new carpets fitted and the fitter has left a huuuuge pile of various sized carpet and underlay offcuts. I would hate not to make use of them and have come up with the following uses so far, but does anyone have any other bright ideas? - Put on the sides of my garage walls so the car door…
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OS Daily Monday 22nd August
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Monday 22nd August. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already.…
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Hook and Eye type Fastening Thingy
Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this type of thread. I've recently bought a second hand coat, but it has a zip and I don't really like zips on coats. I previously had a jacket with a sort of hook and eye type fastening on, excpt the 'hook' sort of opened out, you popped it through the 'eye / loop' and then…
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How to get started?
Hello :D We are a family of six and my monthly food shopping usually comes to about £350. I'm sure I'm spending too much but I've concluded that this is because I'm buying too many convenience type foods due to my lack of cooking ability. Soooo, does anyone have any good words of advice or easy recipes to get me started on…
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Menu plan w/c 21 Aug
Can't see a thread for next week so hope it is ok if I start one. Weekend is a bit unclear as not sure if friends visiting but so far it is Sat out with family Sun pasta bake Mon out Tues roast chicken Wed chicken curry Thurs chicken and mushroom cream Fri jerk pork with corn on the cob Snacks are fruit, hm muffins and…
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Old Style Thread for Sunday 21st August
Hi, this is the Daily Thread for Sunday 21st August. This is an “over the garden fence” type thread where we chat about everything Old Style and maybe a little bit more. It’s a great, inspiring and motivating thread we start each day to discuss what Old Style things we’re going to do today or what we’ve achieved already.…
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Does anyone know what this dish is called?
Growing up in the seventies my mother used to serve this dish once a week. It was mashed potato put into a round pyrex bowl and she made little wells into which she put eggs in. It was topped with sliced tomato and baked in the oven. It would be served with cheese sauce. Any ideas what this is called anyone please?
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baba ganoush gone wrong, what else can I do with it?
I thought I would whip up a quick baba ganoush for lunch I chargrilled an aubergine by putting it over the flame on the hob mashed up some garlic and then wizzed up the aubergine flesh with it. its horrible. its a dark brown colour, not the light colour im used to when getting it from the turkish shop, plus watery and…
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Weekly Flylady Thread 15th August 2011
Welcome to the weekly Flylady thread. If you need help organising your week when it comes to housework, or just the motivation to do the dreaded housework tasks you have to do, come and join us, hopefully make it a little easier. You never know, you might start to enjoy it! There are levels 1, 2 and 3. Level 1 being very…